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Copyrighted 1901 by C. E. Hewes. 



PUBLISHED BY 

THE POWESHIEK COMPANY, 

CLINTON. IOWA. 



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THE POWESHIEK BREWS. 



"Forthwith then issued Hiawatha, 
Wandered eastward, wandered westward, 
Teaching men the use of simples, . 
And the Antidote for poisons, 
And the Cure of all diseases. 
Thus was first made known to Mortals 
All the ita stei y of Medamin, 
All the sacred art of healing." 

— Song of I-Iiawatha. — Longfellow. 



THE LIBRARY OF 
CONGRESS, 

Two Copies Received 

AUG. 10 1901 

/pePVWQHT ENTRY 

CLASS/f XXd/N«. 



MADE ON HONOR. 



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«1797» 



In the year of 1797 when George Washington retired as the first Pres- 
ident of the United States of America, and our young Republic was still 
throbbing from the import of his farewell message; when young Bona- 
parte was winning battles and kingdoms for the Directory, humbling the 
power of Austria in the East and crumbling to dust the once proud Re- 
public of Venice; when Commodore Nelson, beloved of all Britons, was 
hammering away in a sturdy fashion at certain wooden walls manned 
by Dutch and Spanish sailors, and preparing for that career of martial 
glory, which later dazzled the eyes of all Europe, there was born far 
removed from the scenes and wars of the White Man, in "The Land of 
the Beautiful," our own dear Iowa, a tiny pappoose, who was destined 
to become one of the greatest and most beloved chiefs in the history of 
the Sac and Fox Nation. 

The Sac and Fox nation in 1797 were the masters 
of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Des Moines 
River to the mouth of the Wisconsin, and in connec- 
tion with their control of the great Father of Waters 
they asserted and defended their title to all the 
lands and streams adjacent and tributary thereto. Their choicest 
hunting grounds were near the head waiters of the Cedar, the Des 
Moines, the Iowa and the Wapsipinicon.V A little beyond those distant 
localities marked the beginning of the lands of their most dreaded 
enemy, the Sioux. Toward the mouth of the above streams the Sacs 
and Foxes established their villages, being near the center of their 

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lands and easily accessible to the Mississippi, the great parent stream 
whose broad waters furnished an open and direct channel for the con- 
centration of their forces in case of an invasion of their enemies. 

The Mississippi in those days was, as now, a great 

~ nT7x ~ thoroughfare and water highway. Innumerable 
THE GREAT 

families of the Red Men, bands of fur hunters, and 

PAPA RIVER. . ■■ . , . , , , A ., 

companies of intrepid explorers traversed its sur- 
face. Upon its great bosom sped the swift canoes 
of Indian messengers flitting between the different tribes, wedding par- 
ties of dusky villagers, war parties northward bound, causing the great 
stone bluffs to echo with gaiety, sorrow, and all the sounds of Indian 
life as they to-day echo the teeming life of the White Man. 

In the day of the Red Man there was perhaps no 

" THIS IS THE fairer spot in all the world than Iowa. Even now, 

PT AfF" TOW A as we k en °ld her bound with thousands of miles of 

steel, scarred by commerce with powder and blast, 

butchered by plow and axe, who can doubt of that 

legend of the Red Man who crossed the great waters and parting the 

bushes upon the top of some gigantic bluff, peering into the limitless 

expanse of forest green and flowing meadow, exclaiming in that gem 

of Indian poetry, "Iowa!" "this is the place!" "the land of the beautiful." 

Prairies teeming with rich grass and herds of the buffalo, forests alive 

with feathered and furry game, rivers throbbing in their wealth of 

finny tribes, lakes stirring with the rush and whirr of countless wild 

fowl, revealed to the eye of the Red Man a perfect fulfillment of the 

Great Spirit's gift to his chosen people. 

Our little pappoose was welcomed to the wigwam 
A LITTLE °^ n ^ s dusky parents with all the manifestations of 

r» a t>td/^^ct7 joy and pleasure that the arrival of a babe could 

PAPPOOSE. 

arouse in any home, however great or small. His 

babyhood was spent in the closest companionship 
with his father and mother who roved with the tribe as it moved from 
camp to camp, seeking those lovely retreats and camping grounds, 
which to-day mark the site of many of Iowa's fairest cities. In the 

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atmosphere of the unbroken prairie, 'the patriarchal groves, the untar- 
nished springs, defying bluffs of many colored rocks, the free undammed 
streams and boundless hunting grounds, our little pappoose grew to 
manhood. His father pointed out the water fowl and named them 
as they flew in alarm at the approach of the swift canoe. He was 
shown the furry inhabitants of the woods; upon the prairies he became 
acquainted with the swift creatures of the grass and meadow; and 
through many a fair day under the blue smiling skies of Iowa, he 
laughed and cooed by the side of his dusky mother, learning and recit- 
ing the poetic Indian nomenclature of the virgin land of Iowa. 

By the embers of the evening fire the dusky mother 

told him the folklore of her people, the countless le- 

F1VIRFRS AND 

gends unwritten in the books of the world, but pre- 

STARS. served within the pure minds and hearts of Indian 

women for the teaching of their babes. She told 
him of the great father at Washington, and the white people who lived 
across the great waters; of the great chief, Tecumseh, and also re- 
cited all her information of the white men who were daily swarming 
nearer the domains of her people. Then as his ideas were forming of 
the material things of earth and life, she spoke gently to him of the 
Great Spirit who lived in the happy hunting grounds and received the 
spirits of her people, welcoming them into an immortal life of joy and 
purity. The twinkling stars were pointed out as immortal eyes, watch- 
ing and guarding the camp fires of her people; the tiny crescent of the 
new moon had its significence to the distant Indian hunter; and the 
great full moon of the harvest swept regal from the east in its power 
o'er the ripening corn and the wild grape. The sun, the lightning and 
thunder, rain and snow, frost and ice, fire and smoke, and all the ele- 
ments of nature were described to him as direct manifestations of the 
Great Spirit. The American Indian has been, and is to this day, a true 
child of nature. The mercenary instinct which taints our modern civ- 
ilization was unknown to these children of the wilderness. They en- 
joyed the boundless extent of the new world in its primeval glory, and 
worshipped as pure idealists the wondrous works of God. An Indian 

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feels to this day like a fettered prisoner in the possession of a broad 
full section of land where a white man thinks himself free with a mere 
acre. In the adoration of the Great Spirit by these simple children of 
nature, they needed a continent in which to worship His glories where 
the white man is content to raise a cross by the roadside and there 
establish a shrine. The glorious faith of the white man rises and soars 
to his Redeemer over all his environments however sordid and vile, 
while the Indian's more simple faith demands the near and pristine 
works of nature to reveal by the varied sounds of grove and stream, 
of wind and waves, the voice of a near and living God. The Red Man 
demands the great and full course of soulful nature to bring him mute 
and humble to his Master's feet, but the White Man's faith, fixed by 
immortal martyrs and books of holy writ, carries him undaunted 
through the short allotment of life, and he goes singing and serene into 
the impenetrable domain of spirit illumined by the faith of his fathers. 

Our little pappoose, now a lad of muscle and vigor, 

was taken more largely into the care of his father. 

He was taught to hunt, to fish, to command the ca- 
CRAF T. noe> to swim, and all the numberless arts of a brave's 

life. Scenting, tracking, bird and animal calls, pre- 
servation of meat, and all that wonderful wood and prairie craft, 
which has been the wonder and delight of the white man, who has him- 
self been forced to acquire its mysteries to overcome the perils of the 
far west in our great pioneer movement from ocean to ocean. Daniel 
Boone, Kit Carson, Louis and Clark, Lieut. Pike, Gen. Fremont, and the 
unfortunate Custer have all acknowledged, in their day, the craft of 
the American Indian. It is to the craft and subtlety of the American 
savage, who has defended for centuries his possessions in the new 
world, that the Yankee soldier has obtained his well merited superior- 
ity among the powers of the world from Lexington to the walls of Pe- 
kin. The American Indian has trained him, has forced him to learn 
their methods, and then upon even terms in craft the American sol- 
dier has snuffed out the Indian's power with civilization's many weap- 
ons, whisky, avarice and invention. 

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At the age of twenty years our Indian lad was far 
advanced in every art that makes an Indian youth 
eligible to the title of a brave, except that of the 
THE BRAVE. actual experience of battle. At the time of life 
when most young bucks were striving for fame and 
dexterity in the use of horses and weapons, our youth gave evidence 
of a very strong taste for knowledge in medicine and healing. In fact 
he spent so much time among the old squaws and women of the camp 
and in the company of the tribe's medicine man, who at that time 
was very old, that he became the subject of much derision and 
laughter among the young braves of the tribe, who taunted him by 
calling him a "squaw man," and other epithets which were not at all 
complimentary. However, he was patient, and persistently versed 
himself in medicine, and in a comparatively short time had acquired a 
positive fame as a healer and Indian physician and the medicine man 
pf the tribe formally announced to the braves assembled in council that 
our youth was to succeed as the medicine man of the tribe. An in- 
cident happened soon after this occasion which demonstrated to the 
entire tribe the merit of our youth, and from which incident he received 
the name, Powesheik. On a certain occasion while the main body of 
the braves with their chief were far distant upon a hunting expedition, 
a party of Sioux surprised the village of the Fox, and had it not been 
for the bravery and intrepid daring of Powesheik, who rallied the re- 
maining forces of his people, the women and children of the village 
would have been massacred. From this event he received his perma- 
nent name, Powesheik, meaning the "roused bear," and was accepted 
into the tribe as a brave. 

Poweshiek's ability as a warrior of courage and 

generalship having been fully established by this 
POWESHIEK, ..,,., . 

incident, he was permitted to gratify his taste in 

nc m.E.vk\*LLVE. mec i} c j ne an( j healing with the entire good will of his 
MAN. tribe. Poweshiek's knowledge of the quality and 

uses of native barks, herbs and roots, and the com- 
bining and compounding thereof was reputed to be something marvel- 

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lous. He possessed to a wonderful degree that faculty of intuition 
which marks the master physician; a gift that, even in the revealing 
light of modern science and psychic research, is placed in that mystic 
province of high nature which fairly transcends human reason. He 
rapidly acquired the entire knowledge of the old medicine man, who 
mparted to him the sacred teachings of his school; knowledge passed 
on into life by these princes of Indian medicine, guarded as a precious 
treasure in their life time and imparted only to that successor, who by 
his talents could justly claim to be trusted with the secrets of their 
craft. Death all too soon separated these two companions of healing, 
and Poweshiek found himself alone, the physician of his tribe, estab- 
lished by the long practiced rights of his people. 

" Then the medicine men, the Medas, 

The magicians, the Wabeonas, 

And the Jossakeeds, the prophets, 

Game to visit Hiawatha; 

Built a sacred lodge beside him, 

To appease him, to console him, 

Walked in silent, grave procession, 

Bearing each a pouch of healing, 

Skin of beaver, lynx, or otter, 

Filled with magic roots and simples, 

Filled with very potent medicine's" 

— Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow. 

During the Blackhawk war the chief of the Fox 

nrwvr-ccxjjTTv ^ied an< ^ Poweshiek was named and elected chief 
POWESHIEK, 

of the tribe by acclamation of all the braves as- 

CHIEF OF THE , . , . .. _ , . . . . 

sembled in council. Poweshiek upon his accession 

^^-X- must have been endowed with all the physical and 

mental qualities which, combined, make a great 

leader. His rank was superior to that of Appanoose and Wappello, 

who were famous chiefs of the Sac and Fox. He is thus spoken of in 

Fulton's "Redmen of Iowa:" "Truthfulness and a sense of justice 

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seemed to be leading qualities of his mind. His word was sacred and 
a favor he always remembered with gratitude. He was slow to arouse 
to active work, but when fully aroused was a man of energy and 
power." As illustrating the manner in which Poweshiek governed his 
tribe and administered justice, Colonel Trowbridge relates the follow- 
ing incident: " One summer a horse had strayed or been stolen from a 
remote neighborhood. The owner pursued the trail to a point near the 
Fox village, but could then get no further clue. He suspected, however, 
that his property was in the possession of the Indians. He called upon 
Poweshiek early one morning and stated his case. The chief, through 
his interpreter, promised to investigate the matter. He immediately 
issued an order that no person should leave the village until further 
ordered. No one left, or dared go. The owner of the horse de- 
scribed the animal, and was then sent through the camp with an es- 
cort, in search of it. The missing property was soon found and pointed 
out. The avowed Indian owner could give no satisfactory explana- 
tion of his ownership. The white man was directed by Poweshiek to 
take his horse, and the Indian to pay him for his trouble and expense, 
the amount being assessed upon the culprit's share of the next annuity 
from the government. In this way was the thief punished for his dis- 
honesty. Had the encampment or village been walled in, or sentinels 
posted, it would not have been more secure in retaining every Indian at 
home until the search was completed, than it was made by the impe- 
rious command of Poweshiek to his people." Poweshiek is thus men- 
tioned by Col. J. H. Sullivan, who was an eye witness to the signing of 
the treaty of 1836, between the Sac and Fox nation and the U. S. Com- 
missioners, Gov. Dodge, Capt. Boone, and Lieut. Lea, in which the Sac 
and Fox nation ceded to the U. S government 265,000 acres of land at 
76 cents an acre. His description of their camp is especially interesting. 
"The two bands of Fox under Poweshiek and Wapello were encamped 
on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi, opposite and about half way 
up Rock Island." Iowa was then a part of the territory of Wisconsin, 
and this meeting was held near the site of the present city of Daven- 
port. "The encampment was on the slope of the bluff, and at a little 

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distance looked quite picturesque', as the Indians flitted about the bul- 
rush and bark tents, arrayed in their showy green or red blankets, 
looking for all the world, when you gave a glance at their horses brows- 
ing on the bluff tops, like a picture of an Arab encampment, glowing 
with the bright and gorgeous colors of the Orient." Also he thus speaks 
of the Council: "The mass of the warriors and braves were standing; 
the chiefs and head men sitting in front of the standing phalanxes, all 
listening with dignified attention to the proposition of the Governor, and 
as each sentence was interpreted to them, signified their approbation by 
the interjectional 'Heigh.' Who is that sitting in front upon the ground, 
with an air of a good deal of nonchalance, but who is not forgetful of 
propriety and of the proper mode of commanding respect, amid all this 
apparent indifference ? That is Poweshiek, the Chief of the most nu- 
merous band of all." Poweshiek participated in the several treaties 
made by the Sac and Fox nation with the United States in the years of 
1832, 1836, 1837 and 1842. Josiah Smart, interpreter for the Gov- 
ernment, located at the Sac and Fox agency thus relates an incident 
which indicates the fine and generous character of Poweshiek. It seems 
that at the annual distribution of government money due the Sac and 
Fox at their agency the Sac chief, Keokuk, had decided to give a por- 
tion of the annuity to Joshiah Smart's half breed children, whose mother 
was a full blooded Sac woman, upon hearing of which Poweshiek, who 
was present, arose and said: "The Fox Indian is as generous as the 
Sac, and although Smart has taken his squaw from the Sac, still his 
half-breed children's Indian blood calls for a box of silver of the Fox as 
well as that of the Sac, and they should have it. Keokuk endeavored 
to dissuade Poweshiek from his purpose, but the people of the latter 
consenting, he gained his point, and Smart received the silver." 

"In 1846 Poweshiek with the remnant of his tribe, was forced 
to leave Iowa for a new reservation in Kansas, but it is stated 
upon good authority that he subsequently returned in a quiet and 
secret manner with only a few lodges of his people, and visited for a 
short time many of the old haunts and camps of his youth. He finally 
drifted into Northern Missouri and there contracted a fever, which with 

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advancing years and the keen anguish of homesickness, caused his 
death, and his noble soul entered into that happy domain of the Great Spirit 
Manitou, where it is hoped that the avarice and cupidity of the White Men 
will never disturb him again. History records no nobler life among the 
Red Men than that of Poweshiek. He was pre-eminently a man of 
peace, absolutely free from that bestial vice of drink which has stained 
the character of many otherwise noble chiefs. He stood for all that is 
noble in the barbarian, and we can but echo the noble sentiment ex- 
pressed by Guizot in his matchless essay, "History of Civilization in 
Europe," in which he says: "There is somethng in the life of the 
American savages, in the relations and the sentiments they bear with 
them in middle of the woods that recalls the manners of the ancient 
Germans. When we look to the bottom of the question, notwithstand- 
ing this alloy of brutality, the love of independence is a noble and 
moral sentiment which draws its power from the moral nature of man; 
it is the pleasure of feeling one's self a man, the sentiment of personality, 
of human spontaneity, it is free development. When you find liberty in 
ancient civilization it is political liberty, the liberty of a citizen. But 
the sentiment of personal independence, a love of liberty displaying 
itself at all risks, without any other motive than that of satisfying itself; 
the sentiment, I repeat, was unknown to the Roman and to the Chris- 
tian society. It was by the Barbarian that it was brought in and de- 
posited in the cradle of modern civilization, wherein it has played so 
conspicuious a part, has produced such worthy results, that it is impos- 
sible to help reckoning it, as one of its fundamental elements." And so 
it is with these barbarians of the new world, the liberty loving Ameri- 
can Indians. It sets us to reckoning as to how much less we would 
have been as an American commonwealth if the American Indian had 
not aroused our mightiest energies to overcome him, and drive him 
from his possessions. Poweshiek, the barbarian, though passionately 
devoted to his people, yielded at last to the great Father at Washington 
and accepted the inevitable with dignity and grace, The sad spectacle 
that is presented to the eyes of those who have built their homes in the 
ashes of the Indian's wigwam, is brought to mind in no keener sense 

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than that of brave old Poweshiek, weakened by age, his former hunting 
grounds confiscated, his people reduced to a mere remnant moved by 
threat of force to a strange land, wandering back with his few follow- 
ers to dear old Iowa, stoical in face, his cheeks unswept by tears, but 
his great heart bursting in the emotions of departed glories. 

" A noble race! but they are gone 
With their old forest wide and deep, 
And we have built our homes upon 
Fields where their generations sleep. 
Their fountains slake our thirst at noon, 
Upon their fields our harvest waves, 
Our lovers woo beneath their moon — 
Then let us spare, at least, their graves." 

— The Disinterred Warrior-Bryant. 

Poweshiek has left posterity several tokens of his 
skill and craft in medicine, knowledge of which and 

■pj jy ART7TT-T 

the circumstances in connection therewith, are best 
ASHFORD. related in the language of Elizabeth Ashford, now 

residing at Mt. Pleasant Park, Clinton, Iowa. "My 
earliest recollection of Poweshiek is that of his holding me upon his knee 
when I was a mere babe. My people at that time lived on the banks of 
the Cedar river, several miles northwest of the present city of Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa. He was a great friend of our family, and never failed 
to visit us when his tribe camped in our vicinity. He was a man of 
great dignity, and had really a most noble presence. He must have 
weighed nearly 250 pounds, was of a very broad stature and rather a 
round face. The only ornament he wore were several strands of the 
tiniest red beads which were looped around his neck and hung down 
over his chest. His personal appearance was immaculately neat, his 
hands were as shapely as a woman's, arid I never saw upon his person 
the slightest trace of dirt or disorder. He was truly an Indian Prince. 
As I grew older I watched regularly for the coming of the tribe in their 
semi-annual visits, but at lasc they came no longer, the government 

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having transferred them to a reservation in Kansas. But a few years 
later, Noni, a young squaw of Poweshiek's tribe, visited us, reporting 
that both her husband, Quassy, and her babe, together with Poweshiek 
and many followers had died in Northern Missouri in an attempt to 
return to Iowa. She was broken hearted, and in her crude broken Eng- 
lish described the suffering of her people through a long cold winter, 
and that Poweshiek through overwork in battling fever and sickness 
among his people, added to his advancing years and home-sickness, had 
contracted a fever and died, deploring to the last the wrongs of his peo- 
ple, My close association with the Indian and the knowledge of their 
many wrongs at the hands of the whites has often brought me sorrow. 
I well remember that on this occasion our household was distracted 
with sorrow and tears. But I, as well as Poweshiek, have long ago ac- 
cepted as inevitable the fate of the Indian and I now look lovingly back- 
ward o'er the many happy days of childhood, when I played with the 
Fox pappooses on the banks of the Cedar where the red of their skins 
was as good as the white in mine, and the braves of the Fox puffed the 
pipe of peace with my father in those days of long ago." 

" The close association with Poweshiek and his peo- 

_„_ _. / __ 7 _ pie brought to our household several remedies and 

THE POWE- * & 

brews which had been prescribed by Poweshiek to 
SHIEK BREWS. 

the members of his tribe for many years. As my 

mother tested their virtues from time to time she 

became greatly interested in them and carefully kept a full record of 

their composition, method of brewing and compounding, and together 

with many potent and kindly hints from Poweshiek concerning their 

application and beneifts, she was enabled to preserve to posterity the 

fruits of Poweshiek's matchless knowledge of Indian medicines. As 

the result of this knowledge of the several remedies and brews which 

came from Poweshiek direct, together with what natural gifts nature 

has so kindly bestowed upon me, I have given almost my entire life to the 

curing and healing of afflicted humanity, and one of these Indian brews, 

by reason of its universal benefits, it has been my pleasure to make 

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constantly for nearly forty years, having cured in that time many cases 
of sickness which have baffled the skill of excellent physicians. I call 
this remedy Poweshiek's Indian Compound, being named after the 
good Poweshiek, the chief from whom it was obtained, and from vari- 
ous interviews with the people of his tribe and other authorities, I am 
satisfied that the remedy which passed to my keeping was made as 
I make it hundreds of years before the invasions of the white men into 
the upper Mississippi valley and I firmly believe in the light of all my 
experience with this wonderful brew, that Poweshiek's Indian Com- 
pound stands chief among medicines, as Poweshiek was chief among 
men." 

Poweshiek's Indian Compound is brewed from pure 
nnw/TTcuicu-jc barks, herbs and roots that operate in absolute 

harmony upon the entire human system. It is a well 

known fact that almost the entire battle for health 
.rUUJND. j s fought in the blood. Nature has so wonderfully 

constructed the human system that the life current, 
the blood, must be kept absolutely pure, and when once cleaned and 
purified, it in turn so nourishes all the functions of the body that they are 
kept in their normal and natural condition. This Compound acts first 
upon the kidneys and liver, opening up the drainage system of the body. 
Being introduced into the stomach directly after eating, its qualities 
mixing with the food are absorbed directly into the blood, purifying 
that precious life current, driving and forcing all disease and poison into 
the sewerage system of the body, and leaving the body perfectly free 
from all disease. With pure blood and the drainage system in active 
and normal condition, it is impossible to carry disease. Poweshiek's 
Indian Gompound regulates the bowels, the kidneys, the liver, and de- 
stroys all disease in the blood, entering into the utmost recesses of the cir- 
culation, nourishing the nervous system and restoring and maintaining 
that most precious treasure of human life, good health. While its field of 
benefit is practically limitless in the human system, and it is undoubt- 
edly the greatest restorative and tonic in the world, it is recommended 

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■especially for stomach trouble, and all diseases of the digestive system, 
and is recommended specifically for the following ailments: Biliousness, 
Boils, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Ccnstipation, Diabetes, Dyspepsia, Eczema, 
Indigestion, Influenza, La Grippe, Malaria, Neuralgia, Piles, Rheuma- 
tism, Scrofula and Sciatica. It annihilates headache, backache, chills 
and fever, restores the nervous system and corrects sexual debility. 



MADE ON 
HONOR. 



One of the proudest claims of merit made for Pow- 
eshiek's Indian Compound is that it is absolutely 
made on honor. It is brewed in the same honest 
way that it has been made by the Indians for cen- 
turies, later by the noble red man, Poweshiek, and 
at present by Elizabeth Ashford, whose name has stood for all that is 
honest and respectable in the city of Clinton, for many years. In this 
age all articles of trade and commerce are closely scrutinized and it is 
with confidence and pleasure that we offer Poweshiek's Indian Com- 
pound, strictly upon its merits as the most meritorious brew in the 
world. 



Elizabeth Ashford, who has prepared and sold the 
Poweshiek brews for nearly forty years, has 
THE POWE- reached a period in life when she must cease 

SHIEK COM- the arduous labor of the laboratory, which with a 

PANY constantly increasing trade has forced her to train 

other hands to do her bidding and prepare the com- 
pound under her immediate and constant supervision. In order to ac- 
complish this successfully she has organized the Poweshiek Company, 
with headquarters at Clinton, Iowa, and with increased facilities and 
ample capital, it is her purpose to make known to all the world the su- 
perior merit and marvellous quantities of the Poweshiek brews. 

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Elizabeth Ashford, who has healed and cured thou- 
WOMFIVP^ rip sands of women during- a period of nearly forty 

years, will actively conduct the women's depart- 
PARTMENT . 

ment of the Poweshiek company. The remarkable 

intuitive gifts and qualities of this noble woman, 
entitled her to a world-wide prominence, and to all women, no matter 
what their condition or station in life, she offers free consultation and 
advice in strictest confidence. How little the married women know or 
realize the glories of good health. Weighed down as they are by 
countless cares of the household and the trials of married life, they fre- 
quently lapse into that helpless and hopeless apathy which means a life 
of pain and distress. But knowledge and a reasonable attention to 
their person will remove them permanently from that invalid condition, 
and it is within the reach of every woman to lift herself and enter into the 
glories of good health. Young women frequently through ignorance or 
carelessness allow themselves to lapse into distresssing conditions of 
ill health, and Elizabeth Ashford considers it her special mission to cor- 
rect and restore such cases to a natural and healthy basis. Man is a 
complicated creature, but woman is doubly so. Elizabeth Ashford's 
knowledge of her sex is the fruit of a lifetime combined with her won- 
derful intuitive gifts. The Poweshiek brews are a boon to women 
through all their trials from infancy to old age. Women who need the 
counsel of a true friend and a speedy restoration to health, need only 
to address Elizabeth Ashford, stating their symptoms and conditions, 
and they will receive by return mail the sage counsel of a born and 
natural healer of her sex. To those women who can call at her office in 
person, she extends exactly the same privileges as by mail, viz, consul- 
tation absolutely free. Women should address all communications to 

ELIZABETH ASHFORD, 
Lock Box 456. Mt. Pleasant Park, Clinton, Iowa. 



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NOTICE. 



This booklet is designed to give the reader a 
general idea of the origin, history and future of the 
Poweshiek Brews. It is not the intention of the 
Poweshiek Gompany to exhibit a profuse quantity 
of testimonials to the puplic, as in spite of all the 
gratitude and well meant offerings of our friends, a 
testimonial smacks decidedly, of a private issue 
between benefactor and patient. While we will be 
forced from time to time to publish some signed 
testimony as to the merit of our remedies, it is 
nevertheless our intention and will be our constant 
endeavor to make our exhibit in this matter, as 
limited at possible. Privacy is correct etiquette in 
all matters of medicines. We have on file in our 
office many honest and eloquent letters, as to the 
benefit sand merits of the Poweshiek Brews and we 
will exhibit them at all times to any party interested. 

Very truly, 
THE POWESHIEK GO. 



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Price $1.00 per bottle; 6 bottles for $6.00. 



MADE ON HONOR. 



" There a magic drink they gave him, 
Made of Mahama-wusk. the spearmint, 
And Wabeno-wusk, the yarrow, 
Roots of power and herbs of healing; 
Like a man from dreams awakened, 
He was healed of all his madness. 
As the ice is swept from rivers, 
Straightway from his heart departed 
All his sorrow and affliction." 

—Song of Hiawatha — Longfellow. 



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